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- Title
Career guidance from an educational perspective: a proposal within universities.
- Authors
Campanella, Giovanna
- Abstract
This article discusses the importance of guidance within university education and proposes a good-practice model for helping students to transition from university to employment. The analysis arises from educational approach to guidance, that over the last few years is providing an alternative to mainly psycho-technical and diagnostic approach, and conceives guidance practice as a process that is cross-functional concerning students' educational path. The educational-guiding practice aims at raising the subject's metacognitive awareness in order to make him/her able to orient him/herself if autonomously. Hence, guidance turns into a choice education/education in choice. The individual, who has to orient him/herself, and the guidance are strictly connected on the one hand to the issue of the overall "growth" of the individual and on the other hand, to the issue of his/her lifelong learning. To the present day, the practices developed within universities, maybe due to an inconsistent national policy, are somehow inadequate or incomplete, mainly for three reasons: they are purely informational (on the working world, on the degree programs, on the professional opportunities); they mainly focus on diagnostic interventions (based on the linear relationship between aptitudes and interests); they are run by clinical specialists (unrelated to university and education). The model proposed in this article seeks to overcome such limitations by promoting practices aimed at: 1) making information preparatory for the whole educational path; 2) making didactics more sensitive to students' educational and learning needs. The relationship with the non academic world (namely, the manufacturing world) is essential to make students responsible for their educational choice.
- Subjects
VOCATIONAL guidance; EDUCATIONAL counseling; EMPLOYMENT &; education
- Publication
FormaMente, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 3/4, p83
- ISSN
1970-7118
- Publication type
Article